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Elango Cheran
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Elango Cheran writes Sequenced Thoughts from C/S, a personal blog at elangocheran.com about programming and productivity. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Newbie’s Guide to Learning Clojure”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-11, and you can follow it by feed.
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- The Newbie’s Guide to Learning Clojure2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-03-27
What Hacker News says?
Indeed! https://elangocheran.com/2014/10/30/exploring-programming-in... https://youtu.be/MqjMZNwnYCY Although I started the above project around the same time as Ramsey started his project in the original link (CLisp in Arabic), they were two entirely independent things. Ramsey's project is a 100% translation, whereas my project scales to other natural languages but is not a 100% translation. Tim and I worked on try…
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on “قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic”Submitted The Newbie’s Guide to Learning Clojure as a story · 86 points
HN discussiona blog post of mine: http://www.elangocheran.com/blog/2012/03/the-newbies-guide-l... and a workshop that I did: https://github.com/echeran/intro-clj-pres
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on “Clojure from the ground up”Submitted Why Clojure (Lisp) is good for writing transpilers (2020) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIf there are any Lispers who lament the Lisp Curse, or some idiosyncracies of your favorite dialect of Lisp, and you have an open mind to give something new a shot, consider checking out Clojure. I don't want to become one of those diehard __-advocates, but I'm pretty impressed with Clojure. Speaking from experience, I think it solves quite a few of the pitfalls mentioned in the OP. I wrote up an extensive post on h…
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on “Why Reddit switched to Python (2005)”Submitted The Newbie’s Guide to Learning Clojure as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhen I was in middle school (MathCounts' age range), math came naturally to me, and I was a competitive kid. For that reason, Mathcounts was fun for me, and it helped that I consistently did well. If you've never been to a math competition, it's an interesting environment. It's one of the few places that I thought you could gain respect for "academic prowess". Imagine that, in America! I think that the act of creati…
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on “It’s The Age of Big Data: That’s Why Math Counts”